A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work. Here’s an inside look at how winners feel about this sometimes ...

FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2019 file photo, the 2019 Ig Nobel award is displayed at the 29th annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The spoof prizes for weird and ...

Last night in Cambridge, Mass., scientists celebrated the lighter side of their profession at the Ig Nobel award ceremony, which was broadcast on YouTube. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) MARC ...

Last night in Cambridge, Mass., scientists celebrated the lighter side of their profession at the Ig Nobel award ceremony, which was broadcast on YouTube.

The 34th Ig Nobel prizes, themed around Murphy's Law, were announced Thursday and featured the typical array of atypical, zany science.

A Long Life, Thanks to Where You Live? Not Likely, Says Ig Nobel Winner. An Australian researcher found that many areas that supposedly produce lots of centenarians also produce shoddy record-keeping.

The Journal of Improbable Research announced this year's Ig Nobel Prize winners, including a team who researched mammals that breathe through their butts.

Backside breathing and pigeon bombers studies win Ig Nobel prizes Researchers who won the Nobel alternatives from MIT found that sober worms outcrawl drunk ones, plants might have eyes — and it's best ...

Scientists who studied inebriated worms, a dead trout’s swimming acumen, and pigeons as potential missile pilots were among those who garnered awards at the 34th Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The ...

The winners of this year’s IG Nobel Prizes included scientists who studied cadavers’ nose hair, anchovy sex, dead spiders and rock-licking.

The Nobel Prize is the premier award in science, reserved for those that "have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." The Ig Nobel Prize, on the other hand, celebrates the most trivial and ...